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{{Short description|Former municipality of Finland}}
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[[File:Nurmo.sijainti.suomi.2008.svg|thumb|Location of Nurmo in Finland]]
[[File:Nurmo.vaakuna.svg|thumb|The former coat of arms of Nurmo]]
[[File:Nurmo, Seinäjoki.png|thumb|An apartment building in Nurmo]]
'''Nurmo''' is a [[List of former municipalities of Finland|former municipality]] of [[Finland]]. It was consolidated, together with [[Ylistaro]] to [[Seinäjoki]] on 1 January 2009.

It is located in the [[provinces of Finland|province]] of [[Western Finland]] and is part of the [[Southern Ostrobothnia]] [[regions of Finland|region]]. The municipality had a population of 12,378 (15 April 2007) and covered an area of {{convert|361.90|km²|0|abbr=on}} of which {{convert|14.54|km²|0|abbr=on}} is water. The [[population density]] was 33.0 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was unilingually [[Finnish language|Finnish]].

Nurmo houses the HQ and main plant of the meat company [[Atria (company)|Atria]], which has 1700 local employees.

In early 2007 it was proposed to merge Nurmo with the city of Seinäjoki and the neighbouring municipality of Ylistaro. Consultative referendums were held in all three municipalities. Seinäjoki voted heavily in favour; Ylistaro a bare majority in favour, and Nurmo 3:1 against. However, on 21 May 2007 Nurmo Council agreed to the merger by 18 votes to 17, and the municipality ceased to be an independent entity in 2009.

==External links==
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*[http://www.nurmo.fi/ Municipal homepage] {{in lang|fi}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070517232403/http://www.evl.fi/srk/nurmo/ Church homepage] {{in lang|fi}}

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[[Category:Former municipalities of Finland]]
[[Category:Seinäjoki]]
[[Category:Populated places disestablished in 2009]]
[[Category:2009 disestablishments in Finland]]


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